DSW Partners with Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Youth Affairs

The parliamentary representatives for Youth in Uganda launched a strategic plan that will ensure meaningful representation for youth issues in parliament. Several development partners such as UNFPA, DSW, and Partners for Population and Development (PPD) commited their support to this forum. However, DSW challenged the newly created forum to ensure that youth voices were brought to the centre of debates and subsequently to the floor of parliament. Hon. Mariam Nalubega, Member of Parliament and also chairperson of the new forum, promised to work in consultation with the forum’s partners while consulting young people. Moreover, she thanked DSW Uganda for continued technical support and commitment to young people's needs.

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Launch of Reproductive Health Supplies Advocacy Network

DSW Uganda was invited to participate in the first initiative on reproductive health (RH) supplies in Uganda. The network aims at bringing together all stakeholders who promote RH supplies as an important channel for promoting RH programming. It was initiated by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), a partner of DSW in Project Resource Mobilization and Awareness (RMA), working on RH supplies advocacy on the national level in Uganda. At the launch of the network, attended by stakeholders from the Government, civil society organisations and the private sector, UNFPA pledged its total support to this network and encouraged all stakeholders to uplift the objectives set out for the network.

Here you can find other networks and cooperations DSW is involved in.

DSW Pilot Project 'Young Adolescents'

Focusing on an early prevention strategy, DSW Uganda started a pilot project working with younger adolescents from 10-14 years in 10 primary schools in three districts. This project is designed to complement the Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth (PYASCY). The project supports teachers in communicating age-specific reproductive health information and aims to create a supportive environment for communication with parents and community leaders. The project was launched with orientation meetings in the three districts. Activities, such as in-school events, teacher trainings, parent-child dialogues, and mobilization for voluntary counselling and testing will run from April to December 2009.

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